Warp-beam for looms.



J. A. BANGLE & S. R. HUNTER.

WARP BEAM FOR LOOMS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1909 Patented M21115, 1910.

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Wm-mm J. A. BANGLE 8: S. R. HUNTER. WARP BEAM FOR LOOMS. APBLIGATIOH FILED SEPT. 24, 1909.

952,226 Patented Mar. 15,1910.

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, JAMES" L. BANGLE AND SHIELDS R. HUNTER,

' V and Snmnns R.

United States, residing forweavin'g textile fabrics, has

in transverse vertical section.

'ing'warp thereto.

. claims.

.form part. of this specification:-Flgure 1 wvhen all the warp has cured thereto.

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T WE w re 'ASSIG'NQ'BS or ONE-THIRD 'ro THE PEOXIMITY ommnsnono, NORTH, CAROLINA.

WAEP-BEAIwi FDR Looms.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Application filed September 24, 1999. Serial outer or front edges of the bars 6, 7, are elongated recesses or seats 10, 10, which are engaged by the front wall 11 ot' a metallicat-tarreensboro, m the hook 12 to prevent longitudinal movement county of Guilford and'State of North Ga-root the warp-clamp. lina, have invented certain new and useful The clamp-hook 12 is preferably made of Improvements in \Yarp-B eams for Looms, ste l, is open at its inner end to be readily To all-whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES A. BANGLE HUNTER, citizens of the l l andwe do hereby declare the following to engaged with and disengaged from the warpbe a'full, clear, and exact' description of the clamp 5, is of a width corresponding to the invention, such as will enable others skilled length of the recesses 10, 10 in the bars (3, 7 in the artto which it appertains to make and and is provided with an extension 13 by use thesame. which it .is secured to one end of a metallic ()lir invention relates primarily to looms l especial reterence to warp-beams and means for secnr- 16 so that the warp-clamp and its support-- ing bands may wrap closely around and encircle the beam 1 when warp is being wound 4 rpon the beam, as shown in Fig. 1, and swing out 'from the beam when the warp on the l beam has all been used, as shown in Fig. 2. The beam is provided l has for its object simple means for reducing the waste of warp to a minimum by allowing approximately all of the warp on the beam to be worked or made into fabric, and the invention consists in certain improvementswhich will be fully disclosed in the following specification and The invention with concentric or circumferential grooves bands 1-1 lie when the warp is being wound upon the beam to prevent entanglement of the warp with .t-hebands, and to provide for absolutely even and regular winding of the warp and prevent uneven lengths of the strands oi warp, which produce slack in the long strands as they pass through the weave ing harnessl and consequent defects in the fabric being woven.

In Figs. 5 and 6, a gage-plate 18 is shown over the warp-clamping'members 6, 7, and is held in position by clamp-jaws 19, 20. The plate 18 a 6, 7, and serves as a. warp as it proceeds'or is'being unwound from the slasher, warping preparatory machine, and wound upon and the beam filled: l When a beam has been tilled with Warp, the member '7 is placed under or below the Reference bein I sheet of warp, the member 6 placed upon the designating characters thereon the nul the sl'ieet with the holes 9, t), registering with metal 1 indicates the warp, 1' a warp'beam, the pins 8, S, the members 6, 7, are turned In the accompanying drawings, which represents a plan view of. a warp-beam cmbodying our invention, and showing the warp clamp in its normal position with warp partially encircling the beam. Fig. 2 a like view, showing the warp clamp in position been drawn from the 3 a vertical transverse section l r mam 1 lg 1 a detail of the a on line 3-3 Fig. 1. Fig. warp-clamp showing the plan view on an enlarged scale. plan view of the clampwith a. gage-bar scl Fig. 6 a vertical transverse section of the same on line (-6 Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 an enlarged view showing one of the bands in side elevation and the warp-clamp bars in edge'and Fig. 5 a

had to the drawings and 2 the heads of the beam, 3 the supporting over wrapping the warp around them, when shaft. In the beam is formed a longitudinal the guide-plate 18, is placed upon the Warp groove 4 of a depth and width to receive a clamp and secured by the jaws 19, 20. The warp-clamp 5. The clamp is composed of sheet. of warp is then two parallel metallic bars (3, 7, the former along the outer edge ot-the' guide-p1ate,,the being provided with dowel pins 8, 8', and the tall beam removed and another beam placed latter with holes or openings 9, 9, which regin position to be filled,

' 20 and'the plate 8, to p v and'intbe clanip-lmolis 12,

when the jaws 15),

ister wit-h and engage the pins 8,

rent one bar movmg on the other, 12 applied to the warp- 17, 17, in which the hand 14, and the opposite end of said band is pivotally secured to a staple 15, by an eye machine .or other severed'with a knife 18 are removed and the.

clamp and the warp wound upon the empty beam. 1n nmvinding the warp, the bands 14 unwind from the beam II. and the warpclampo extends very near to the Whip-roll, when the beamis stopped and the "warp severed, resulting in a minin'nnn of waste of the warp.

I-lnving thus fully descrilmd our inven tion, what We claim is-- II. A \varybenni provided with a longitudinal groove, :1 warp-clamping 1n ember engaging said QLOOVQ, and metallic bands cured to and nornmlly encircling the beam and having cliillllrlltiltlfi on the outer ends thereof engaging said \HHp-(flillllplllg n1embers.

2. A \\'nr -bc:un provided with n longil.ll\llll;ll groove, :1 wnrp- -lnniping member cng'nging' said groove, (:ii'cnmiercntial grooves in said beam, metallic bands normolly engaging said grooves and pivotally connected to the beam at one end, and having clamp-heads at the opposite ends engag ingz; said warp-clamping members.

I}. A warp-brain provided with a longb tndinal groove, a warp-clamping member comprising a pair of parallel metallic bars detachably connected and provided with recesses or seats on one edge thereof, and metallic bands secured to and normally encircling the beam and having metallic clam heads t on their "outer ends engaging the warp-clamping member and said recesses or seats thereon.

4. A Warp-beam provided with a longitudinal groove, and a Warp-clamping member comprising a pair of parallel metallic bars detachably connected, a gage-plate projecting beyond one of the edges of said clamping member, and metallic bands .piv-

otally connected to the beam at one end and hav ng elamp-heads at their outer ends en- 

